Rubbish is piling up outside the home of a wheelchair-bound pensioner – despite repeated calls for Kirklees Council to shift it, her nephew claims.

Michael Moore, 57, said his 84-year-old aunt, Anna Wallace, was supposed to have her bagged up rubbish removed from the back of her property at Armitage Street, Primrose Hill , by the council under its “assist” scheme for people unable to take their wheeled bins to the kerb to be emptied.

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But he said he had to call the council repeatedly to remind them to take the rubbish. Mr Moore said: “This has been going on for about two years. It’s constant. I can guarantee that if I ring up as I did in August last year by the end of the month I will have to ring up again.”

He said other people had started dumping their rubbish alongside her bin bags – including a kitchen stool, a broken chest of drawers, official documents and food waste. Mr Moore said: “Now she is getting ants in the house. It smells outside and there’s rotten food.”

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To add her problems, his aunt received a letter last December warning residents in her block of four flats about items such as push bikes being left in the entrances – even though she could not possibly be responsible.

A Kirklees Council spokesperson said: “We have no record of the customer reporting a missed collection since December 2016. We will contact the resident to discuss the issue and try resolve it as soon as possible.”